i was shown this by a friend and thought it was cool so i downloaded it,
http://earth.google.com/
lets you see the world in a 3d image and zoom to any location in the world, it doesnt update its like a 2 year old picture but its cool because you can zoom to like your house or school etc. and just look at it and i think you should try it out. its fun!

I have tried that quite some time ago and I think that it is an awesome piece of software. I can zoom even to the rooftop of the building that I am living in. I have friends studying landscape engineering and he told me that even the students use google earth to aid their design of landscape as it is free and fast. One thing I don't like about google earth is that some cities, especially australian ones, are not shown well and in good resolution. The people at google earth should update the images with newer and finer ones so that at least the major cities are displayed in car level.

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